Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Award-winning podcast of true stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, true crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained -- seven days a week! Hosted by professional voice actor Darren Marlar, named one of the “Best Storytellers in Podcasti...
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Markheim and the Voice Whispering Murder | #RetroRadio
A Christmas Eve margin call sends a rich man's nephew scrambling for six thousand dollars he doesn't have, with a voice in his head whispering that th...
True Hitchhiking Horror Stories: Killers, Victims, and Ghosts Thumbing Rides
A serial killer who kept his victims' heads, a woman held under a waterbed for seven years, and a phantom passenger who vanishes from the back seat —...
Alabama Teen Charged With Stabbing His Parents Over a Facebook Post | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A Baldwin County 911 call brought deputies to a Daphne family's front yard, where a mother lay dead and a father had run house to house leaving bloody...
A Match Date, a Bottle of Wine, and a Woman Climbing Through the Window | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A Pennsylvania man came home to an opened bottle of wine, a bedroom light he swore he'd left off, and the woman he'd stopped dating months earlier sho...
Spend the Night With the Dead: America's Haunted AirBNBs
You can rent a bedroom where a little girl in a yellow dress still hums lullabies, a miner's casita in a Texas ghost town, or a schoolhouse tucked ins...
Charlie Charlie, the Playground Ouija Board With a Body Count of Claims | #WDRadio
Two crossed pencils, a sheet of paper marked yes and no, and a name spoken twice — and by the time an Italian priest was called into a Calabrian prima...
THE SHADOW, “The Crystal Globe” | #RetroRadio
A fortune-teller's crystal globe shows his clients a single vision of their own deaths — and one by one, they begin to make it come true.
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The Mandrake's Shriek and the Deaths at Wicklow Manor | #RetroRadio
A film crew arrives at Wicklow Manor to shoot on location, where a centuries-old legend says a mandrake's shriek lures the heartbroken to their deaths...
Mel's Hole: The Bottomless Pit That Gives Its Dead Back | #COTU
Everyone hears "bottomless pit" and braces for a sermon about hell — this one goes somewhere stranger, to the only hole in all of Scripture that keeps...
Childish Laughter: The Ghost Girl In The Red Pinafore | #RetroRadio
A chemist, lost on a lonely country road at nightfall, keeps glimpsing a laughing little girl no one else in the isolated mansion will admit exists.
THE PACK: A Werewolf Horror Story | #MidnightInTheMacabre
A nervous first visit to his girlfriend's rural Alberta home turns into a late-night hunting trip with her father, and something in the pines is watch...
Torso in the Thames: The Unsolved Ritual Murder of a Boy Named Adam
A child's mutilated torso surfaced from the Thames near Shakespeare's Globe in 2001, and more than two decades later no one has been convicted of kill...
NIGHT OF THE INSECTOID: The Signal Max Sent Into Space | #MicroTerrors
Max spends his Friday nights broadcasting homemade radio signals toward the Kuiper Belt hoping to reach alien life, and one summer evening, something...
Black Sludge: The Last Shift at the Late-Night Cafe
A late-shift barista alone in a small-town cafe finds himself watched by a bald, mud-smeared stranger in a spotless black suit — a man who leaks somet...
The Bloody Benders: America's First Serial Killer Family
Travelers on the Kansas trail stopped at a lonely inn run by a family of Spiritualists — and the ones who sat in the seat nearest the curtain were nev...
New Series Coming This Friday: Midnight in the Macabre
Something new is coming to Weird Darkness. Starting this Friday night, horror fiction gets its own identity — a dedicated series called Midnight in th...
Haunted Los Angeles: Ghosts, Cults, and the City of the Occult
Los Angeles hides an almost overwhelming number of ghosts behind its glamour, from the piano-playing spirit at Hollywood's Magic Castle and the body f...
The Parasite: A Skeptic, a Hypnotist, and a Soul She Refused to Free | #RetroRadio
A skeptical London professor sets out to expose a plain, lame hypnotist as a fraud, never suspecting that the woman he dismisses has already decided h...
Homicide House: Someone Is Living in the Dead Van Cleek Mansion | #RetroRadio
An unknown gunman murders the last of the wealthy Van Cleek line, and when two reporters break into the family's boarded-up mansion to photograph it b...
The Ghost In The Well | #RetroRadio
A Soho painter can't stop painting the same 19th-century woman — until she starts talking back, insisting she was murdered and thrown down a Manhattan...
The Siders Case: 16 Children Found in a Hamden, OH | What We Know, What The Internet Got Wrong
Sixteen children were found in a single room on Ohmer Street, and their mother had been delivering them in hospitals for seventeen years.
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The Villisca Ax Murders: The Reverend and the Rival
In 1912, an axe killed all eight people sleeping in a Villisca, Iowa farmhouse, and the two men suspected of it — a traveling preacher and a business...
Real Werewolf Trials: The Executed Lycanthropes of Early Modern Europe
Read an even deeper-dive into the werewolf trials here: https://weirddarkness.com/wolves-on-trial/
Across four centuries of European cour...
Rocket Fuel, Sex Magic, and the Birth of Scientology
The man who invented solid rocket fuel and helped found the Jet Propulsion Laboratory spent his nights performing sex rituals in a Pasadena mansion wi...
A Tyrant Robot, a Sludge Lord, and a Galaxy Full of Pleasure Rods | #RetroRadio
The Master Constipator discovers another galaxy ripe for conquest and sets out to bring it under his rule, placing him on a collision course with Lord...
The Dumbbell Murder: Two Lovers Committed a Murder So Stupid The Papers Named It Twice
A discontented Long Island housewife and the forgettable corset salesman she seduced hatch a clumsy plot to murder her sleeping husband — a scheme so...
THE SHAPE IN THE SNOW: An Arctic Horror Story
Something tall and black is standing on the mountain above the Arctic outpost, it hasn't moved in days, and every man who sees it is a man who has som...
MRS. AMWORTH, THE CURSE OF MAXLEY: A Chilling Classic Horror Story by E.F. Benson
In the quiet village of Maxley, where shadows stretch long and the dead refuse to rest, an unsuspecting community is about to uncover a horror that ha...
The Man Who Feared Death and the World That Ended It — Immortal Gentleman | #RetroRadio
A man who has feared death every day of his life wakes among strangers who cannot die — and finds that to them, he is something called an “atavus” — d...
The Traveling Clairvoyant of Tipton Mountain | #RetroRadio
“Judas Kiss: The Traveling Clairvoyant of Tipton Mountain” — A hermit who claims he can watch distant events from inside a hollow pine tree becomes co...
SLUDGE: The Swimming Hole Behind the Duncan Quarry | #MicroTerrors
Three kids track down a forgotten swimming hole behind the abandoned Duncan Quarry, rediscover it for the summer — and find out why everyone stopped c...
Ronald Dominique, The Bayou Strangler Who Killed 23 Men
Between 1997 and 2006, an overweight pizza delivery man named Ronald Dominique strangled 23 men across rural Louisiana, and almost no one has ever hea...
Scientists Confirm Eating People Is Bad For You, Especially in Bulk | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Two researchers built a mathematical model of human cannibalism and discovered, after considerable effort, that the answer is no.
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Christa Pike, the Job Corps Skull Killer, Faces Execution in 2026
Christa Pike carried a piece of Colleen Slemmer’s skull back to the Job Corps dorm as a souvenir, and on September 30th, 2026, Tennessee is scheduled...
Famous Faces, Unseen Forces: Celebrity Ghost Encounters
Flying jackets, faces frozen mid-scream, a coven convinced they needed David Bowie's blood, and a demon that crashed a text at exactly 666 megabytes —...
“Temple of Vampires” — An ‘I Love a Mystery’ Horror Radio Serial | #RetroRadio
Stranded in the Nicaraguan jungle beside an ancient temple, three adventurers and their companions discover its priests serve a horror that's all too...
The Peony Lantern: A Ghost's Love Finds a Samurai Beyond the Grave | #RetroRadio
A young samurai's forbidden love for a warlord's daughter follows him past the grave, when her returning ghost lures him into a fatal embrace no sacre...
The Smiling Sisters and the Del Rio Stabbing of Caroline Peña | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A mother of five bled out on a Del Rio street on a Thursday afternoon, and by that evening the two sisters accused of killing her were caught on camer...
The Black Monk of Pontefract: England's Most Violent Poltergeist
When the Pritchard family moved into 30 East Drive, they thought a broken pipe was flooding the kitchen. But the hooded thing they came to call the Bl...
Cody Jacob Googled His Father and Found His Own Attempted Murder | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A man who searched his estranged father's name once a year for closure instead found a 1998 arrest record naming himself as the victim.
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